Music: Soundies

In U. S. bars, taverns, roadhouses are about 600,000 coin phonographs,
or jukeboxes (a word which their manufacturers hate). According to an
estimate by Variety, the jukes take in $150,000,000 a year in nickels.
Costing an average of $300 apiece, the jukes become obsolete, or
outmoded, at the rate of 150,000 a year. This week one of
the biggest makers, Mills Novelty Co. of Chicago, was ready to
unveilin Hollywooda new kind of box which it calls the Panoram
Soundies.

Drop a dime in a Soundies (the word apparently has no singular form) and
you see a three-minute film, with musical accompaniment,...